Archive Ples is a digital media and storytelling project co-founded by Lavau Nalu and Samira Saunders. Emerging from the Tok Pisin word ples—meaning place, home, or country—the project explores how archives, memory, and image-making shape relationships to land, identity, and belonging.

Through film, photography, and sound, Archive Ples reclaims visual narratives of Papua New Guinea and the Pacific, positioning Indigenous authorship and sovereignty at the centre of how our stories are seen and shared. It is both a space of preservation and a site of reimagining, an evolving archive that lives, breathes, and resists.